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The War on Drugs is the intensified anti-drug campaign that began during the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, who served office from June 30, 2016, to June 30, 2022.
Relatives of drug war and alleged extrajudicial killings victims light the candles to remember the victims. November 30: Various groups nationwide staged the protests on Bonifacio Day [232] with the caricatures of Duterte, along with President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, were shown. [233]
He launched a blood war on drugs campaign. Officially, 6,229 drug personalities have been killed as of March 2022. [14] News organizations and human rights groups claim the death toll is over 12,000. [15] [16] The Philippine National Police led the drug war through Oplan Double Barrel which began in 2016. [17]
Portraits of alleged victims of the Philippine “war on drugs” are displayed during a protest of Duterte’s State of the Nation Address, in Manila, Monday, July 22, 2019.
In accordance with his campaign promise, President Rodrigo Duterte initiated the war on drugs shortly after he took office on June 30, 2016. [9] [10] As of July 26, 2017, the Philippine Information Agency reported 68,000 anti-drug operations which resulted in around 97,000 arrests, 1.3 million surrenders, and around 3,500 drug personalities killed in legitimate police operations. [11]
A Philippine court has dropped drugs charges against one of the most vocal critics of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody “war on drugs,” ending a long legal battle that had seen the ...
Duterte had withdrawn membership in 2018 after the court's prosecutor announced a preliminary examination into thousands of killings in Duterte's war on drugs. An investigation into Duterte's ...
[208] [209] Though many human rights note that Duterte's war on drugs was a stain on his legacy, [210] the anti-narcotics drive received domestic approval during his term, [211] [212] [213] and 58% of the country's barangays were declared by the government cleared of illegal drugs by February 2022. [214] [215]